Flooding Pere Marquette River to peak Monday afternoon

AP PhotoJoe and Jan Gehgen look at the water surrounding their Hamlin Lake Middle Bayou cottage on Saturday.

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) -- Flood waters continued to rise Sunday in parts of western Michigan as the state tried to recover from a second straight weekend of severe weather.

The latest flooding followed rain that totaled 11 inches in less than 12 hours Thursday and Friday near Scottville, east of Ludington. The Pere Marquette River that enters Lake Michigan at Ludington in the western Lower Peninsula was expected to crest 6.8 feet over flood stage by Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

About 28 Ludington streets remained closed Sunday because of flooding. A sewage main that served about 90 percent of the city broke as a result of the rains and officials were asking residents to restrict water use, limiting the discharge of sewage into waterways before the repair was completed. Drinking water in the city of 8,400 was safe, the officials said.

There was no Iowa-like flooding Ludington, mainly water in basements, said Mason County spokesman Fabian Knizacky.

"I've got 5 inches in mine," he said, adding that a few homes had some ground-floor flooding.

A new wave of severe thunderstorms hit parts of Michigan on Sunday as utility crews worked to restore power to tens of thousands blacked out over the weekend.

DTE Energy Co.'s Detroit Edison unit said about 13,000 customers -- most of them in Detroit's western suburbs -- were without electricity Sunday afternoon, including 11,000 who lost power earlier in the day, spokesman John Austerberry said. Service to the 2,000 customers without power before Sunday's storms hit was expected to be restored by midnight, he said.

CMS Energy Corp. said it had about 7,900 homes and businesses without power Sunday afternoon, including about 5,000 in the Grand Rapids area, spokesman Dennis Berkebile said.

The latest outages came on the heels of 730,000 blackouts caused by a series of storms that hit the state June 6-9. The earlier storms killed eight people.